Harper Collins Collins Nature Guide Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and Europe
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Mon 2, February, 2009
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Description:
This new full colour photographic guide to over 400 species of mushroom and toadstool found in Britain and Europe arranges fungi by their shape for easy identification.
• Each species is illustrated with its own specially taken colour photographs
• Individual descriptions include facts on colour, shape, smell, time of year the mushroom is seen and similar species
• All the mushrooms that are edible or poisonous are clearly marked
Author:
Edmund Garnweidner
RRP:
£9.99
Published Date:
01.09.94
ISBN:
0-00-219994-7
Format
Paperback Hardback
Author
wyevilla Officer of the Wild Empire
Registered: January 2007 Location: Dorchester, Dorset Posts: 569
Review Date: Mon 5, February, 2007
Would you recommend it? Yes |
Total Spent: £7.99| Rating: 7
Strengths:
Clear illustrations with helpful text to aid the novice
Weaknesses:
As a novice to the world of Fungi identification, I find this Guide invaluable.
The photographs are of the usual high quality that one associates with these Collins Nature Guides and the text is sufficiently detailed to help with identification of over 400 species of fungi.
However, as I say I am a novice. I do not feel that this book alone would give me sufficient confidence to differentiate between, say, all the similar Boletus species.
Nevertheless, as an aid to the budding mycologist I would recommend this compact book.
------------------------------ Best wishes, Neil
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KeenTeen17 Commander of the Wild Empire
Registered: August 2008 Location: Preston in NW Posts: 3698
Review Date: Mon 2, February, 2009
Would you recommend it? Yes |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 0
Strengths:
easy to use for a beginner
Weaknesses:
incorrect detail on rarity, focuses more on rare species
This is ok for a beginner. The problems start to arise when you think you have an ID sorted by looking at this book and then coming onto WAB and seeing that your mushroom is in fact something totally different that wasn't mentioned in the Collins. Also, this book mostly focuses on the rare species like Hygrocybe coccineocrenata and misses out the more common ones. The rarity rating can be misleading in the case of Parrot Waxcap which is listed as rare in this book and is in fact a very common lawn mushroom.
